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Brda dialect (947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the Gorizia Hills in Slovenia and Italy. It is known for extreme vowel reduction in final position. It borders the Natisone Valley dialect to the north

Mingrelian language (1,131 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mingrelian, or Megrelian (მარგალური ნინა, margaluri nina) is a Kartvelian language spoken in Western Georgia (regions of Mingrelia and Abkhazia), primarily

Polabian language (978 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

secondary stress on the second one. Stress was interconnected with vowel reduction. All vowels except /ə/ and /ɐ/ were full vowels and could only occur

Input enhancement (450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

implicitly in standard teaching practice. IE techniques include: Avoiding vowel reduction typical of rapid or casual speech Slowing down the rate of speech Using

Natisone Valley dialect (1,746 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

related to the Torre Valley dialect, which has a higher degree of vowel reduction but shares practically the same accented vowel system. It borders the

Tundra Nenets language (2,595 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tundra Nenets is a Uralic language spoken in European Russia and North-Western Siberia. It is the largest and best-preserved language in the Samoyedic

Southern Russian dialects (602 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Siberia, and Far East. Unstressed /o/ undergoes different degrees of vowel reduction mainly to [a] (strong akanye), less often to [ɐ], [ə], [ɨ]. Unstressed

Sri Lankan Portuguese creole (2,918 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

phonological changes that occur in the Creole. For instance, there is [vowel reduction] by way of prominence reduction of unstressed vowels. This means that

Hinje, Sevnica (203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hinja Creek). The first unaccented syllable was lost through modern vowel reduction. The name therefore means 'people living along Hinja Creek'. See also

Sidney Wood (phonetician) (946 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

doi:10.1121/1.394090. PMID 3745671. Pettersson, T; Wood, S (1987). "Vowel reduction in Bulgarian and its implications for theories of vowel production"

Sak language (541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sequence /ŋj/. [ə] only occurs in minor syllables or as a result of vowel reduction of /a/. Sak uses a decimal-based numeral system. Sak uses two sets

Bequia English (488 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to sound like [la:d]. According to Meer, Bequia English has limited vowel reduction and a high tendency toward syllable-timed stress pattern. Williams

Socka (185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1403–04 and Ainedt in 1441). The Slovene name Socka is derived through vowel reduction from *Sǫtěska, literally 'gorge'. The settlement was named for the

Proto-Finnic language (7,838 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ingrian — under influence of Votic — developed a more complex system of vowel reduction in any unstressed syllable unless immediately following a short stressed

Portuguese orthography (6,127 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

or sometimes e), in BP. ^ May become an approximant as a form of vowel reduction when unstressed before or after another vowel. Words such as bóia and

Lendu language (367 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

380–418. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Trifkovic, Mirjana. 1977. Tone preserving vowel reduction in Lendu. Studies in African Linguistics 8. 121–125.

Central Styrian dialect (182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

voiceless consonants and in final position, and a small degree of vowel reduction. Final-syllable accent is morphologically unknown. Smole, Vera. 1998

Northwestern Bulgarian dialects (283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

щ~жд (ʃt~ʒd), ъ (ə) for both Old Church Slavonic ѫ (yus) and ъ (ə), vowel reduction, etc. Стойков, Стойко: Българска диалектология, Акад. изд. "Проф. Марин

Hinje, Žužemberk (332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Sevnica). The first unaccented syllable was lost through modern vowel reduction. The name therefore means 'people living along Hinja Creek' and may

Tolmin dialect (211 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

resulting from accentual retraction of the type nàga < nogà 'foot', vowel reduction as in the central Slovene dialects, b < v (known as betacizem in Slovene)

Pržan (380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pržan is uncertain. One theory states that it arose through modern vowel reduction of the prepositional phrase pri Žanu 'at the Žan farm', referring to

Mongolic languages (3,308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

drops; vowel reduction) > /jama(n)/ 'goat', and *emys- (regressive rounding assimilation) > *ømys- (vowel velarization) > *omus- (vowel reduction) > /oms-/

Stična (425 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

derived (via dissimilation) from *Štična, which developed through vowel reduction from *Žitičina, created from the personal name *Žitiťь (which was the

She (pronoun) (1,049 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

chronologically preferable hēo. Once again we have syllabicity shift and vowel reduction, giving [heo̯] > [he̯o] > [hjoː]. Then [hj-] > [ç-], and [ç-] > [ʃ-]

Cremunés dialect (518 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 5 June 2022. Delucchi, Rachele (2013). "Vowel Harmony and Vowel Reduction: The Case of Swiss Italian Dialects". Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

History of Latin (7,655 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ū or oe, and ei > ē > ī). In non-initial syllables, there was more vowel reduction. The most extreme case occurs with short vowels in medial open syllables

Kankanaey language (1,472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

predicating infixation and aspect infixation. However, in this example, vowel reduction occurred when the infixes were added before the vowel, causing the

Velika Ligojna (270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

today's name is a result of the sound change ľu- > li- and modern vowel reduction, and means 'Ljudigoj's village'. The local church in Velika Ligojna

Mala Ligojna (238 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

today's name is a result of the sound change ľu- > li- and modern vowel reduction, and means 'Ljudigoj's village'. The local church in the settlement

Kwara'ae language (133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vocabulary. The sound [ə] is recognized as an allophone of /a/. There is vowel reduction, so final /i/ and /u/ are often deleted. Before /i/, the vowel /a/

Cayman Islands English (880 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

eliminated. For example, "milk" may sound more like "mihk" or even "mik." Vowel Reduction: Some vowels in Cayman Islands English can be reduced or shortened

Muscogee language (3,394 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

200–245. ISBN 0803242352. Johnson, Keith; Martin, Jack (2001). "Acoustic Vowel Reduction in Creek: Effects of Distinctive Length and Position in the Word" (PDF)

Čabranka dialect (1,164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

inner Slovenia. The Bajtarji microdialects have undergone the most vowel reduction; akanye is very common, as well as the shifts *xiša → šiša, *žejən

Castelmezzano dialect (252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was shifted from /o/ to /u/, yielding "bun" in Romanian, as part of vowel reduction. focus focum /ɔ/ [?] fuc foc somnus somnum /ɔ/ [?] samno somn The Dalmatian

Razlog dialect (543 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Southwestern dialects): съза vs. formal Bulgarian сълза (tear) Moderate vowel reduction, as in the rest of the Rup dialects and Standard Bulgarian The masculine

Comparison of Lao and Isan (3,534 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lao is a Tai language spoken by 7 million people in Laos and 23 million people in northeast Thailand. After the conclusion of the Franco-Siamese conflict

Modern Greek phonology (1,756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2016-03-03. Baltazari, Mary (2007). "Prosodic Rhythm and the status of vowel reduction in Greek" (PDF). Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Rup dialects (940 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

syllable: бял/б[æ]ли instead of formal Bulgarian бял/бели (white) Vowel reduction of unstressed /a/, /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ which is weaker than the reduction in

Ottawa phonology (3,550 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Island Ottawa were noted in Bloomfield (1958), and treated by him as vowel reduction, the situation was not identical in all Ottawa materials collected

Wahgi language (1,704 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reduce across morpheme boundaries, and stress seems to play a role in vowel reduction. It may be that some of the difficulties in analyzing stress may be

Mozambican Portuguese (1,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the influence of other languages of Mozambique:[citation needed] Vowel reduction is not as strong as in Portugal. The elision of word-final 'r' (for

Paulician dialect (653 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

counterparts /i/ and /u/, i.e. a development which is exactly opposite to the vowel reduction in the Balkan dialects: тибе vs. Standard Bulgarian тебе (you), жина

Crow language (4,140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mid nonround or round vowel: i, a become e; u becomes o. identical vowel reduction: with suffixes beginning with a, sequences of 3-4 identical vowel morae

Torre Valley dialect (1,184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

east. Syllabic *r̥ turned into aːr in the west and ər in the east. Vowel reduction is not common. Akanye is present in some microdialects for *ǫ̀ and

Ser-Drama-Lagadin-Nevrokop dialect (1,924 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Church Slavonic ръ/рь and лъ/ль, retention of h in the stem, strong vowel reduction, etc. and none of those typical for Macedonian. The following is a

Gallo-Romance languages (2,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of a word, which is another defining characteristic. It and final vowel reduction are most of the extreme phonemic differences between the Northern and

Latin phonology and orthography (8,184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

words. It developed out of a historical short /u/, later fronted by vowel reduction. In the vicinity of labial consonants, this sound was not as fronted

Soča dialect (829 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

remained unchanged, and *ə̄ turned into aː. Syllabic *ł̥̄ turned into uː. Vowel reduction affected all vowels. Ukanye (*o, *ǫ → u) is common, as well as simplification

Slovene phonology (5,041 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

be diphthongized, short vowels tend to be reduced because of modern vowel reduction, which is also common in colloquial spoken language. Apart from centralization

Vera'a language (1,638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

There is no stress in Vera'a, although the effects of metaphony and vowel reduction must have preceded its loss. Vera'a is unique within the local languages

Solun-Voden dialect (1,206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

бев, убаво Preserved – бех, хубаво Preserved – бех, хубаво was, nice Vowel reduction Yes Yes No No No Definite article Single definite article – момчето

Brunei English (2,320 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as a lingua franca around the world. Furthermore, the avoidance of vowel reduction in unstressed syllables is consistent with the way English is spoken

Languages of Brunei (2,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

start of words such as thin and think tends to be pronounced as [t]; vowel reduction is mostly avoided in function words such as of and that; and there

Panará language (1,878 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a result of the phonological rule long vowel diphthongization. Low vowel reduction is also used in Panará; the vowel /a/ can be reduced to [ɐ] or [ə]

Close-mid central rounded vowel (1,643 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

1080/07268600600885494, S2CID 62226994 Crosswhite, Katherine Margaret (2000), "Vowel Reduction in Russian: A Unified Account of Standard, Dialectal, and 'Dissimilative'

North White Carniolan dialect (1,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unaltered. All vowel changes are expected for a Slovene dialect, and vowel reduction is present. The Slovenian linguist Jože Toporišič even states that

Maleševo-Pirin dialect (1,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

— бех, убаво Mixed — бех, убаво Preserved — бях, хубаво was, nice Vowel reduction No No No — in Blagoevgrad Yes — of а (a) in Petrich subdialect No No

Consonant cluster (2,329 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a vowel in between two consonants, usually (but not always) due to vowel reduction caused by lack of stress. This is also the origin of most consonant

Yaeyama language (2,314 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

this has been reduced to five in modern Japanese, but in Yaeyaman, vowel reduction has progressed further, to three vowels. Generally, when modern Japanese

Indo-European ablaut (3,501 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(qualitative gradation: man / men) and others the complete disappearance of a vowel (reduction to zero: could not → couldn't). For the study of European languages

Bulgarian language (12,970 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

consonant palatalization before front vowels (/ɛ/ and /i/) and substantial vowel reduction of the low vowels /ɛ/, /ɔ/ and /a/ in unstressed position, sometimes

Second-language phonology (1,883 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

395–411. Flege, J. E., & Bohn, O.-S. (1989). An instrumental study of vowel reduction and stress placement in Spanish-accented English. Studies in Second

Lower Carniolan dialect (1,213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

*ī and *ū widened or diphthongized, and there is a higher degree of vowel reduction. Smole, Vera. 1998. "Slovenska narečja." Enciklopedija Slovenije vol

Irish initial mutations (1,951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prothesis of ⟨t⟩ and ⟨h⟩ stems from historical lenition combined with vowel reduction. The prosthetic ⟨t⟩- of vowel initial words is a fossilised fragment

Synizesis (2,562 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

("then"), dis for dies ("day") and sa for sua ("your"). This synizetic vowel reduction in order to avoid hiatus continued through to the evolution of the

Kaluza's law (836 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lost, but there is a range of evidence for other kinds of unstressed vowel reduction in the history of Old English. This evidence suggests that vowel-length

Mixed Kočevje subdialects (1,434 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

instead of -i in dative/locative singular o-stems, and very prominent vowel reduction, especially for the endings -o and -i. At the same time, it lacks some

Miami-Illinois language (3,816 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vowels appear to be reduced to a schwa /ə/. The contextual rules behind vowel reduction are unclear, and since no other Miami-Illinois text indicates any similar

Enets language (2,708 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

different dialects of the Enets languages; There is partial or complete vowel reduction in the middle and at the end of a word Consonants preceding i and e

Middle Dutch (4,671 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

escaped the lowering in the previous change, hence sunne /ˈzynnə/. Vowel reduction: Vowels in unstressed syllables are weakened and merge into /ə/, spelled

Siwi language (3,368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

verbal system. Vycichl notes that it shares the feature of prefix vowel reduction with Zenati. Aikhenvald and Militarev, followed by Ethnologue placed

Meroitic language (3,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nasal has become resyllabified into coda position due to diachronic vowel reduction/weakening and subsequent complete syncope of the following vowel: ⟨ant⟩

Garre language (2,761 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is whether ə should be considered a phoneme or the result of short vowel reduction rules. Not without doubts, we will consider "e" - historically derived

Belarusian language (8,725 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

most significant instance of this is found in the representation of vowel reduction, and in particular akanje, the merger of unstressed /a/ and /o/, which

Proto-Indo-European phonology (6,253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

such far-reaching vowel changes (especially in Celtic and the extreme vowel reduction of early Latin) that they are somewhat less useful. Albanian and Armenian

Berber languages (9,235 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

present, case is always expressed through nominal prefixes and initial-vowel reduction. The use of the marked nominative system and constructions similar

Middle Welsh (5,006 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

operates as follows: The centring mutation is due to a process of vowel reduction that operated earlier, in late Brythonic, when the stress was placed

Bulgarian phonology (10,751 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and /i/, /ɤ/ and /u/ are "high". The dominant theory of Bulgarian vowel reduction posits that Bulgarian vowels have a phonemic value only in stressed

Aramaic (16,556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the construct is often the same as the absolute, but it may undergo vowel reduction in longer words. The feminine construct and masculine construct plural

Open syllable lengthening (1,456 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

remained distinct for original /a(ː)/, /o(ː)/ and /u(ː)/. Mechanisms of Language Change: Vowel Reduction in 15th century West Frisian, A. Versloot, 2008

Cornish phonology (5,249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

but to *ō̝ according to Jackson *au-beros 'vain, empty' > *ō̜-beros vowel reduction in proclitics and final syllables *ū is fronted to *ǖ (internally and

Biblical Hebrew (13,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

though there may be evidence that Samaritan Hebrew once had similar vowel reduction. Samaritan /ə/ results from the neutralization of the distinction between

Ingrian grammar (4,166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with historically an underlying final -a or -ä that underwent full vowel reduction. -e leaf lehti (<*lešte) lehen lehtiä lehtee lehet lehtilöin lehtilöjä

Proto-Albanian language (9,748 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

deleted. In Later Proto-Albanian, however, a new system of unstressed vowel reduction emerged where *a reduced to *ë while all others were simply deleted

Kagoshima dialect (10,355 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

or diphthong (i.e. /ɽei/ → */i/). So instead, vowel coalescence and vowel reduction are exhibited (/ɽei/ → /ɽeː/ → /ɽe/). The determiner suffix surfaces

Old Korean (9,463 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Japanese, with all clusters and coda consonants forming due to vowel reduction later on. However, there is strong evidence for the existence of coda

Traditional English pronunciation of Latin (11,172 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

following consonants of the same sound. For the purpose of determining vowel reduction in initial unstressed syllables they count as open. Double consonants

Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish (17,198 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

especially characteristic of the latter dialects). This increased vowel reduction is also present in accents of the Brazilian Northeast, particularly

Phonological history of Old Irish (6,328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

h-ˈebʲbʲrʲod kon ˈosna — dʲí R-ˈRósski Nʲíd-ˈdʲerskoxʲi Unstressed vowel reduction es ˈbʲerəd Nʲí h-ˈebʲbʲrʲəd — Nʲí k-ˈkuw̃səna di R-ˈRósski Nʲí d-ˈdʲerskəxʲi

Siberian Ingrian Finnish (2,932 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

position. The appearance of these consonant sounds is the result of vowel reduction in word-final position. Siberian Ingrian Finnish has the following

Brevis brevians (12,033 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Linguistic Theory 12. 1–61. Meunier, Christine; Espesser, Robert (2011). "Vowel reduction in conversational speech in French: the role of lexical factors." Journal

Slovene declension (13,668 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vocative case. In the southeastern part of Brda dialect, the modern vowel reduction was so developed that a new way of declining nouns was developed. Brda